{"id":5447,"date":"2023-02-01T23:39:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T06:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5447"},"modified":"2023-02-01T23:39:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T06:39:31","slug":"gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/02\/01\/gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cSo nice,\u201d Sarah thought, reciprocating a friendly wave.<\/p>\n<p>She would\u2019ve helped if her arthritic hands weren\u2019t an issue. Instead, she watched the next door neighbor bend countless times to weed a bountiful garden. <\/p>\n<p>When showy bouquets were presented at her front door, Sarah returned the favor with her baking. When her husband died, the neighbor had arranged funeral flowers free of charge. <\/p>\n<p>Drought settled the following year. Flowering plants suffered. Rosebuds dried, not getting a chance to bloom. Much of the garden had dwindled.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the blossoming friendship between the two women, who found themselves together at a seniors\u2019 lodging.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Krystyna Fedosejevs <\/p>\n<p>Krystyna writes poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction regardless of the season, although she prefers spring.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo nice,\u201d Sarah thought, reciprocating a friendly wave. She would\u2019ve helped if her arthritic hands weren\u2019t an issue. Instead, she watched the next door neighbor bend countless times to weed a bountiful garden. When showy bouquets were presented at her front door, Sarah returned the favor with her baking. When her husband died, the neighbor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11062,10215,7866,4257,11662,2963,2735,3292,419,11660,41,2927,1285,8176,3224,11665,3426,11661,11663,11664,3027,2522],"class_list":["post-5447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-baking","tag-bouquets","tag-drought","tag-favor","tag-flowering-plants","tag-flowers","tag-friendship","tag-front-door","tag-garden","tag-gratitude","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hands","tag-husband","tag-issue","tag-krystyna-fedosejevs","tag-lodging","tag-neighbor","tag-next-door-neighbor","tag-rosebuds","tag-seniors","tag-wave","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5448,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions\/5448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}